Open mike 08/01/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 8th, 2022 - 163 comments
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Daily review 07/01/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, January 7th, 2022 - 52 comments
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Open mike 07/01/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 7th, 2022 - 122 comments
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Daily review 06/01/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, January 6th, 2022 - 14 comments
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Australia’s Omicron problem
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Date published: 9:44 am, January 6th, 2022 - 132 comments
With over 61,000 new Covid cases reported yesterday Australia is in the midst of an infection surge that it has not seen before. What lessons can New Zealand learn from Australia’s handling of the pandemic?
Open mike 06/01/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 6th, 2022 - 175 comments
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Daily review 05/01/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, January 5th, 2022 - 35 comments
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The Long Covid Post
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Date published: 11:30 am, January 5th, 2022 - 50 comments
It’s understandable that public health, governments and the media focused initially on acute covid, but we’re two years in now, it’s well past time to put long covid to the forefront as well.
Open mike 05/01/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 5th, 2022 - 183 comments
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Daily review 04/01/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, January 4th, 2022 - 35 comments
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Open mike 04/01/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 4th, 2022 - 212 comments
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Daily review 03/01/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, January 3rd, 2022 - 3 comments
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Open mike 03/01/2022
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Date published: 7:26 am, January 3rd, 2022 - 101 comments
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Maintenance time
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Date published: 11:51 am, January 2nd, 2022 - 15 comments
The Standard server is going down for a few hours later today for maintenance. Some of the drives in the archive array are getting old. The SSDs in The Standard array are showing wear. Needs a good vacuum – for which I mostly blame the cat….
Open mike 02/01/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 2nd, 2022 - 74 comments
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New Year. Good News.
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Date published: 5:43 pm, January 1st, 2022 - 92 comments
This one goes out to all those good people running round like their hair’s on fire.
Hope Punk 2022
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Date published: 12:35 pm, January 1st, 2022 - 11 comments
Here’s a kind of map to a future where things work out.
A few random predictions for 2022
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Date published: 11:30 am, January 1st, 2022 - 117 comments
A few random predictions for 2022.
Open mike 01/01/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 1st, 2022 - 140 comments
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Daily review 31/12/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 31st, 2021 - 9 comments
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Open mike 31/12/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 31st, 2021 - 183 comments
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Daily review 30/12/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 30th, 2021 - 56 comments
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Let’s punch for peace
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Date published: 4:28 pm, December 30th, 2021 - 34 comments
Today’s Herald editorial says New Zealand ‘wisely’ doesn’t punch above its weight in military activities. That’s not true – I remember sailing around the nuclear-powered USS Truxtun as it entered harbour in a Wellington gale. It was just one of many flotillas campaigning against nuclear weapons and nuclear war that resulted in a knockout – New Zealand’s suspension from the ANZUS alliance on a point of principle.
New Zealand 2 Covid 0 so far …
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Date published: 8:36 am, December 30th, 2021 - 280 comments
But Omicron may be loose.
Open mike 30/12/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 30th, 2021 - 73 comments
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Daily review 29/12/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 29th, 2021 - 97 comments
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On the death of Joan Didion
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Date published: 6:58 am, December 29th, 2021 - 5 comments
We need to remember Joan Didion, who died December 23rd, as perhaps the best defensive pessimist we’ve ever had. She nailed the feet of her times down to the floor to make sure it talked and wept all its pain out. It’s not enough to call Joan Didion just a pessimist, because she wrote hard […]
Open mike 29/12/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 29th, 2021 - 116 comments
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Daily review 28/12/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 28th, 2021 - 5 comments
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What Starts off in Support of Alabama’s Miners …
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Date published: 10:00 am, December 28th, 2021 - 2 comments
What Starts off in Support of Alabama’s Miners turns into a homily from Beau on the power of getting community change going when and only when you have the organisational power to pull it off month after month after month.
The Standard’s 2021 political awards
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Date published: 7:34 am, December 28th, 2021 - 68 comments
It is that time of year where nostalgia kicks in and the desire to review current events dims. So much has happened this year. It has truly been twelve months of the praiseworthy and the absolutely pitiful. And it is time to reflect on the personalities who made us smile, made us frown and made us raise our eyebrows to breaking point.
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